Watch what Tepco does and ignore what they say (lie). They're still pumping 18 tons of water into reactor unit 2 every hour. Looks like the boric acid is ongoing as well. Certainly there is nitrogen being pumped into the containment. Hydrogen requires a lot of energy to produce, powerful chain reactions.

In a fast reactor the production of Xenon-135 will throttle the chain reactions as it is produced. The chain reactions will slow because Xenon-135 is a strong neutron poison. As the Xenon is saturated the chain reactions start up again, producing more Xenon and the cycle is repeated. Temperatures have risen in this reactor before and are likely to do so again.

Tepco is also probably detecting Iodine isotopes and Chlorine, too but not reporting them. There is also a flux of fast neutrons but these cannot be detected without special detectors which Tepco should install within the reactor.

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